Universidad Científica del Sur

The Universidad Científica del Sur (UCSUR), or Scientific University of the South, is a private university in Lima, Peru, with its main campus on the Panamericana Sur about nineteen kilometres south of the historic centre.南方科学大学（Universidad Científica del Sur，简称 UCSUR）是秘鲁利马的一所私立大学，主校区位于泛美公路南段，距历史城区约十九公里。

It was promoted from 1996 by a group of educators led by the engineer José Carlos Dextre and was authorised to operate by the National Council for the Operation of Universities on 5 February 1998.该校自 1996 年起由工程师何塞·卡洛斯·德克斯特雷为首的教育界人士筹划，并于 1998 年 2 月 5 日获全国大学运行委员会批准办学。

QS places it in the 1201-1400 band for 2027 and counts 10,884 students with 1,400 academic staff, while its 8,036 works and 83,981 citations in OpenAlex mark it as a research-active private institution.QS 将其列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，统计其有 10,884 名学生与 1,400 名学术人员，而 OpenAlex 收录的 8,036 项成果与 83,981 次引用显示这是一所科研活跃的私立院校。

History

• In 1996 a group of Peruvian educators led by José Carlos Dextre agreed to create a new university in Lima, at a time when private higher education was expanding rapidly under the 1990s liberalisation.1996 年，何塞·卡洛斯·德克斯特雷为首的一批秘鲁教育界人士决定在利马创办一所新大学，当时私立高等教育正随 1990 年代的放开政策迅速扩张。
• The promoting association itself was constituted in 1997, a year before the operating licence, and it remained the legal owner of the university after teaching began.创办协会本身于 1997 年组建，比办学许可早一年，并在开课之后继续作为大学的法定所有者。
• The promoters chose a site beside the Pantanos de Villa wetland, then outside the built-up city, and planned a campus with an explicitly environmental design.创办者把校址选在潘塔诺斯-德比利亚湿地旁，当时那里还在建成区之外，并按明确的环境设计理念规划校园。
• On 5 February 1998 the National Council for the Operation of Universities (CONAFU) approved the start of activities by Resolution 356-98-CONAFU, the legal act that founded the university.1998 年 2 月 5 日，全国大学运行委员会（CONAFU）以第 356-98-CONAFU 号决议批准其开办，这一决议成为大学的法定起点。
• The organising commission was chaired by Fernando Cabieses Molina, a Peruvian neurosurgeon and medical writer who became the first rector, while Dextre served as president of the board.筹委会由秘鲁神经外科医生、医学作家费尔南多·卡维耶塞斯·莫利纳主持，他后来成为首任校长，德克斯特雷则担任董事会主席。
• The physician José Chacón Polar was appointed first academic vice-president, completing a founding team drawn from medicine, engineering and university administration.医生何塞·查孔·波拉尔出任首任学术副校长，与医学、工程与大学管理三方面人士共同组成创校团队。
• The opening ceremony took place on 29 March 1998 at the Museo Pedro de Osma in Barranco, and admission examinations were held from 12 July of the same year.开学典礼于 1998 年 3 月 29 日在巴兰科的佩德罗·德奥斯马博物馆举行，入学考试自同年 7 月 12 日起举行。
• Teaching began in September 1998 with fifty students divided between Medicine and Systems Engineering, the two programmes with which the university launched.1998 年 9 月开始授课，首届五十名学生分属医学与系统工程两个专业，这也是学校最初开设的全部课程。
• Construction of Campus Villa 1 started in 1998, and for years the site housed only the science schools, with medicine, nutrition, stomatology and veterinary medicine sharing the laboratories.维拉一号校区于 1998 年动工，此后多年校园只容纳理科各院，医学、营养、口腔与兽医专业共用实验室。
• In 2004 the university created its Cultural Centre to manage artistic activity, and from 2006 it has run an International Theatre Festival that brings companies to the campus.2004 年，学校设立文化中心管理艺术活动，并从 2006 年起举办国际戏剧节，邀请剧团进校演出。
• The main library received the Banco Wiese Sudameris collection in 2005, some 13,000 books on economics, finance and the humanities that became the core of its holdings.2005 年，主图书馆接收了班科维塞苏达梅里斯收藏，约 1.3 万册经济、金融与人文类图书，成为馆藏核心。
• After ten years as rector, Fernando Cabieses Molina stepped down in 2007 and was succeeded by Agustín Iza Stoll, formerly dean of medicine.担任校长十年后，费尔南多·卡维耶塞斯·莫利纳于 2007 年卸任，由原医学院院长阿古斯丁·伊萨·斯托尔接任。
• A sports field inaugurated in 2008 became the origin of Campus Villa 2, around which further teaching halls were built as the university outgrew its first site.2008 年落成的运动场成为维拉二号校区的起点，随着学校规模超出最初校舍，周边陆续建起更多教学楼。
• From 2011 the university began moving every school and administrative office to Campus Villa, consolidating teaching on the single site beside the wetland.自 2011 年起，学校启动把全部学院与行政办公室迁往维拉校区的进程，将教学集中于湿地旁的单一校园。
• In 2013 Hall A was remodelled and reopened as the Fernando Cabieses Molina Research Hall, named for the founding rector, with laboratories and an anatomy amphitheatre.2013 年，A 楼经改造后以创校校长之名重开为费尔南多·卡维耶塞斯·莫利纳科研楼，内设实验室与解剖阶梯教室。
• José Amiel Pérez became rector in August 2013, and the rectorship passed to Josefina Takahashi in 2015 and to Manuel Efraín Rosemberg Barrón in 2018.何塞·阿米埃尔·佩雷斯于 2013 年 8 月出任校长，2015 年由何塞菲娜·高桥接任，2018 年又交由曼努埃尔·埃弗拉因·罗森贝格·巴龙执掌。
• The university added master's programmes and specialisation courses through its graduate school, expanding from two initial careers to eighteen bachelor's degrees and thirteen master's degrees.学校通过研究生院增设硕士项目与专业进修课程，从最初两个专业扩展到十八个本科专业与十三个硕士项目。
• Peru's university law of 2014 created the National Superintendency of Higher Education, and UCSUR, like every private university, had to demonstrate basic quality conditions to keep operating.秘鲁 2014 年大学法设立国家高等教育监管局，南方科学大学与所有私立大学一样，须证明其达到基本质量条件方能继续办学。
• In the 2020s it entered the global rankings, reaching the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings for 2027 and the 2001+ band of the Times Higher Education table.进入 2020 年代，该校首次进入全球榜单，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，并在泰晤士高等教育排名中处于 2001+ 区间。
• Its research strategy concentrated resources in three proposed institutes, cellular and molecular biology, chemistry and biochemistry of natural resources, and microbiology.其科研战略把资源集中于三个拟设研究所，即细胞与分子生物学、天然资源化学与生物化学以及微生物学。
• The campus grew to about 100,000 square metres divided into four sections, with a husbandry unit of 15,000 square metres in the section nearest the coast.校园扩展到约十万平方米，划分为四个区，靠近海岸的一区设有占地 1.5 万平方米的畜牧教学基地。
• In 2023 the university completed a quarter of a century since its first classes, a period in which it moved from two careers and fifty students to eighteen degrees.2023 年，该校迎来首届授课四分之一世纪，其间它从两个专业、五十名学生发展为十八个学位项目。

Academics

• The university teaches eighteen bachelor's degrees and thirteen master's degrees, organised around health sciences, environmental sciences, business and humanities.学校开设十八个本科专业与十三个硕士项目，围绕健康科学、环境科学、商科与人文四大学科群组织。
• Health sciences include medicine, stomatology, nutrition, psychology and veterinary medicine, the programmes with which the university built its reputation.健康科学包括医学、口腔医学、营养学、心理学与兽医学，这些也是学校建立声誉所依托的专业。
• Environmental sciences group environmental engineering and management, forest and agronomic business, marine biology and ecological business, and architecture with environmental urbanism.环境科学群包括环境工程与管理、林业与农艺商务、海洋生物学与生态商务，以及建筑与环境城市设计。
• Business degrees cover business systems engineering, economic and business engineering, international business administration, marketing, communications, sustainable tourism and hotel management, and law.商科包括商业系统工程、经济与商业工程、国际工商管理、市场营销、传播学、可持续旅游与酒店管理以及法律。
• Performing arts is the humanities programme, and it draws on the Cultural Centre and the theatre festival for performance practice.表演艺术是人文学科的主要专业，其演出实践依托学校文化中心与戏剧节。
• The medical school combines basic science teaching in the research hall with clinical rotations, and its anatomy amphitheatre is the ceremonial centre of first-year medicine.医学院把科研楼内的基础科学教学与临床轮转结合，解剖阶梯教室则是医学一年级的仪式性场所。
• Veterinary and husbandry students work in the Villa 6 unit, which keeps cattle, horses and small animals for teaching and for reproduction studies.兽医与畜牧专业学生在维拉六区基地实习，那里饲养牛、马与小动物，用于教学与繁殖研究。
• Research is directed by the vice-rectory of research, whose strategic plan offers grants and incentives for projects that win domestic and foreign competitions.科研由科研副校长主管，其战略计划为在国内国际竞争中中标项目提供资助与奖励。
• Priority research lines are veterinary and husbandry, agrarian and forest sciences, clinical trials in medicine, marine biology and environmental engineering.优先研究方向为兽医与畜牧、农业与林业科学、医学临床试验、海洋生物学以及环境工程。
• The Fernando Cabieses Molina Research Hall concentrates teaching and research laboratories, including an anatomy amphitheatre and rooms for cell culture and molecular work.费尔南多·卡维耶塞斯·莫利纳科研楼集中了教学与研究实验室，包括解剖阶梯教室以及细胞培养与分子实验用房。
• QS counted 10,884 students and 1,400 academic staff, with 70 international students, a profile dominated by undergraduates from Lima's southern districts.QS 统计该校有 10,884 名学生与 1,400 名学术人员，国际学生 70 人，生源以利马南部各区的本科生为主。
• Admission runs through an ordinary evaluation held twice a year, a university preparatory centre, academic preference for strong school records and a route for International Baccalaureate holders.招生途径包括每年两次的常规测评、大学预科中心、依据中学优异成绩的学术优先录取，以及国际文凭持有者的专门通道。
• Distinguished athletes who belong to a national squad, external transfers and holders of an existing degree are admitted through separate procedures.入选国家队的优秀运动员、外校转学生与已获学位者则通过另外的程序录取。
• The academic year has two semesters of eighteen weeks, running from April to July and from August to December, with some courses offered in the summer.学年分两个十八周的学期，分别为 4 月至 7 月与 8 月至 12 月，部分课程在夏季开设。
• Library services operate on two sites, the main library at Campus Villa 1 and the smaller collection in the Casona in Miraflores, which can request books from the main library.图书馆在两个地点服务，主馆位于维拉一号校区，米拉弗洛雷斯的卡索纳设有较小规模的馆藏，可向主馆调借图书。
• The library's Banco Wiese Sudameris collection of 13,000 volumes is supplemented by specialised journals, multimedia and a newspaper archive of Peruvian institutions.图书馆的班科维塞苏达梅里斯收藏共 1.3 万册，另有专业期刊、多媒体资料与秘鲁机构报刊档案作为补充。
• With 10,884 students and 1,400 academic staff, the student-teacher ratio is under eight to one, unusually low for a tuition-funded private university in Peru.该校有 10,884 名学生与 1,400 名学术人员，生师比低于八比一，对一所依靠学费的秘鲁私立大学而言异常之低。
• Clinical teaching relies on agreements with private clinics and hospitals in Lima, where students in the later years of medicine rotate through wards.临床教学依靠与利马私立诊所及医院签订的协议，医学高年级学生在这些机构病房轮转。
• In medicine its benchmark is the Cayetano Heredia University, and in agrarian and veterinary science the Agrarian University La Molina, both older Lima institutions with national research profiles.在医学领域，其对标者是卡耶塔诺·埃雷迪亚大学，在农业与兽医领域则是拉莫利纳农业大学，两者都是利马历史更久、具有全国科研影响的院校。
• Personalised teaching and the early introduction of students to their profession have been the declared marks of its curriculum since 1998, and they survive in the small intake of the medical school.个性化教学与让学生尽早接触本专业，是该校自 1998 年以来宣示的课程特色，这些特色在医学院的小规模招生中延续下来。
• Clinical trials conducted in Peru need authorisation from the National Institute of Health and clearance by an accredited research ethics committee, a route the university follows for the hospital studies run with its clinical partners.在秘鲁开展临床试验须获得国家卫生研究院批准，并经认证的科研伦理委员会审查，该校与临床合作方共同开展的医院研究即走这一程序。

Campus

• Campus Villa lies at kilometre 19 of the Panamericana Sur, about nineteen kilometres south of central Lima and immediately beside the Pantanos de Villa reserved zone.维拉校区位于泛美公路南段 19 公里处，距利马市中心约十九公里，紧邻潘塔诺斯-德比利亚湿地保护区。
• The site covers roughly 100,000 square metres in four sections, Villa 1, Villa 2, Villa 3 and Villa 6, each built in a different phase of the university's growth.校园占地约十万平方米，分为维拉一号、二号、三号与六号四个区，各自对应学校不同阶段的扩建。
• Villa 1, begun in 1998, holds the research hall, the main library, the administrative offices and the auditorium, and it remains the academic core.1998 年动工的维拉一号区容纳科研楼、主图书馆、行政办公室与礼堂，至今仍是教学核心。
• Villa 2 grew from the sports field opened in 2008, and Villa 3 was built at the same time to take the faculties that moved from the original halls.维拉二号区由 2008 年启用的运动场扩展而来，三号区同期建设，用于安置从原校舍迁出的学院。
• Villa 6 lies closest to the coast and contains the husbandry unit, a 15,000 square metre enclosure for cattle, horses and the veterinary teaching herd.维拉六区最靠近海岸，设有畜牧基地，这片 1.5 万平方米的围场饲养牛、马与兽医教学畜群。
• The Casona in Miraflores houses a branch library and graduate teaching, giving the university a presence in one of Lima's central residential districts.米拉弗洛雷斯的卡索纳设有分馆与研究生教学，使学校在利马中心住宅区之一保有一处据点。
• The university runs buses between Lima and Campus Villa for students and staff, and lends bicycles for movement between the four sections of the site.学校为学生与教职工开行利马至维拉校区的班车，并在校内提供自行车以便在四个区之间往来。
• The Pantanos de Villa wetland, a Ramsar site, provides field material for marine biology, environmental engineering and ecology courses, and birdwatching is a routine practical activity.潘塔诺斯-德比利亚湿地是拉姆萨尔国际重要湿地，为海洋生物学、环境工程与生态学课程提供野外素材，观鸟是常规实践活动。
• The campus was designed on environmental lines, with low buildings, planted courtyards and natural ventilation suited to Lima's desert climate and almost total absence of rain.校园按环境理念设计，建筑低矮，庭院绿化，利用自然通风，以适应利马沙漠气候与几乎终年无雨的条件。

Reputation

• The university is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, its strongest global position to date.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1201-1400 区间，这是其迄今最好的全球位次。
• In the QS Latin America and Caribbean ranking it sits in the 201-250 band, and in the QS Sustainability Ranking 2025 it is placed 1401-1450.在 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比地区排名中，该校处于 201-250 区间，在 2025 年 QS 可持续发展排名中位列 1401-1450 区间。
• Times Higher Education lists it in the 2001+ band for 2027, the last segment of the table rather than an individual rank.泰晤士高等教育将其列入 2027 年 2001+ 区间，即榜单末段而非单独名次。
• It appears in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list without a rank, and it did not enter the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main table.该校进入 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单但未获名次，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• OpenAlex records 8,036 works and 83,981 citations, with clinical medicine, veterinary science, marine biology and environmental engineering the most visible fields.OpenAlex 记录该校 8,036 项成果与 83,981 次引用，临床医学、兽医学、海洋生物学与环境工程是最显见的领域。
• Its citation-to-work ratio of about ten to one is high for a university founded in 1998 and reflects the weight of biomedical publishing.约十比一的篇均被引水平，对一所 1998 年创办的大学而言偏高，反映出生物医学论文所占的分量。
• The 2013 research hall gave the university a visible laboratory base, and its output grew fastest in clinical trials and agricultural biotechnology after that date.2013 年落成的科研楼为学校提供了可见的实验室基础，此后其产出在临床试验与农业生物技术领域增长最快。
• Its reputation in Peru rests on medicine and veterinary science rather than on engineering, and the medical programme is the most competitive in its admissions.该校在秘鲁的声誉主要建立在医学与兽医学而非工程之上，医学专业也是其招生竞争最激烈的项目。
• The private-sector model leaves it dependent on tuition, and its fees place it in the middle of Lima's private university market rather than its top tier.私立模式使其依赖学费收入，其收费水平处于利马私立大学的中段而非最高一档。
• Lima's older universities, above all the National University of San Marcos and the Catholic University of Peru, dominate public research funding, and UCSUR competes mainly on professional training.利马历史更久的大学，尤其是国立圣马科斯大学与秘鲁天主教大学，主导公共科研经费，南方科学大学主要在职业培养上竞争。
• Its medical graduates register with the Medical College of Peru, the professional body that licenses physicians, which ties the university's reputation to a national standard.该校医学毕业生须在秘鲁医学公会注册，这一机构负责医师执业许可，使学校声誉与国家专业标准绑定。

Student life

• The Cultural Centre, created in 2004, organises exhibitions, concerts and theatre on campus, and it manages the university's artistic calendar.2004 年成立的文化中心在校内组织展览、音乐会与戏剧演出，并统筹学校的艺术活动日程。
• The International Theatre Festival, held every year since 2006, brings Peruvian and foreign companies to the campus auditorium and to venues in Lima.自 2006 年起每年举办的国际戏剧节把秘鲁与外国剧团请到校园礼堂及利马市内场地。
• The Medical Students' Scientific Society runs journal clubs and research methods workshops, and it is the oldest academic society of the university.医学生科学协会组织文献讨论会与研究方法工作坊，是该校历史最久的学术社团。
• Talides, a second student society, brings together students interested in literature and the arts and publishes work by members.另一个学生社团塔利德斯汇聚对文学与艺术感兴趣的学生，并刊印成员作品。
• Sport is played on the Villa 2 fields, and the equestrian unit at Villa 6 supports riding as a minority but distinctive university activity.体育活动在维拉二号区的场地进行，维拉六区的马术基地则支撑着少数却颇具特色的马术活动。
• Because the campus lies outside the city, daily life follows the bus timetable, and most students arrive in the morning and leave in the late afternoon.由于校园位于城外，日常生活依照班车时刻表运转，多数学生清晨到校、傍晚返城。
• Field trips to the Pantanos de Villa reserve and to the coastal hills form part of the routine for environmental and marine biology students.前往潘塔诺斯-德比利亚保护区与沿海丘陵的野外考察，是环境与海洋生物学学生的日常课业。

Notable people

• Fernando Cabieses Molina, the neurosurgeon and medical historian who chaired the organising commission and served as first rector from 1998 to 2007, is the university's founding intellectual figure.神经外科医生与医学史家费尔南多·卡维耶塞斯·莫利纳主持筹委会并于 1998 至 2007 年任首任校长，是学校的创校学术象征。
• José Carlos Dextre, the engineer who led the group of promoters, was president of the board and remained the university's executive proprietor.工程师何塞·卡洛斯·德克斯特雷领导创办团体，任董事会主席，并长期担任学校的行政负责人。
• José Chacón Polar, a physician appointed first academic vice-president, shaped the medical curriculum in the university's first decade.医生何塞·查孔·波拉尔出任首任学术副校长，在创校头十年塑造了医学课程。
• Agustín Iza Stoll, dean of medicine before his election, was rector from 2007 to 2012 and oversaw the expansion of the health sciences.阿古斯丁·伊萨·斯托尔在当选前担任医学院院长，2007 至 2012 年任校长，主导了健康科学的扩张。
• José Amiel Pérez held the rectorship from 2013 to 2015, the years in which the research hall opened and the campus consolidation began.何塞·阿米埃尔·佩雷斯于 2013 至 2015 年任校长，科研楼落成与校园整合正始于这几年。
• Josefina Takahashi was rector from 2015 to 2018, and Manuel Efraín Rosemberg Barrón has held the post since 2018.何塞菲娜·高桥于 2015 至 2018 年任校长，曼努埃尔·埃弗拉因·罗森贝格·巴龙自 2018 年起接任。
• The university's graduates work mainly in Lima's private clinics, veterinary practices and environmental consultancies, a professional network built in less than three decades.该校毕业生主要服务于利马的私立诊所、兽医诊所与环境咨询机构，这一职业网络在不到三十年内建成。